[KS] PUBLICATION> The Collected Works of Korean Buddhism

[Charles Muller]

Subject: The Collected Works of Korean Buddhism
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:09:06 +0900
From: Charles Muller <acmuller at l.u-tokyo.ac.jp>. Robert Buswell
<buswell at humnet.ucla.edu>, Roderick Whitfield <rw5 at soas.ac.uk>,  John
Jorgensen <johnjorgensen52 at gmail.com>


Dear Colleagues,

It gives us great pleasure to announce the release of the English
Edition of _The Collected Works of Korean Buddhism_. This edition,
completed in July 2012, consists of thirteen volumes of English
translations of selected texts from the Hanguk Bulgyo Jeonseo 韓國佛教全
書. The thirteen volumes of this anthology collect the whole panoply of
Korean Buddhist writing from the Three Kingdoms period (ca. 57
C.E.‒668) through the Joseon dynasty (1392‒1910). These writings include
commentaries on scriptures as well as philosophical and disciplinary
texts by the most influential scholiasts of the tradition; the writings
of its most esteemed Seon adepts; indigenous collections of Seon
_gongan_ cases, discourses, and verse; travelogues and historical
materials; and important epigraphical compositions.

It is our hope that _The Collected Works of Korean Buddhism_ will ensure
that the writings of Korean Buddhist masters will assume their rightful
place in the developing English canon of Buddhist materials and will
enter the mainstream of academic discourse in Buddhist Studies in the
West. Korea’s Buddhist authors are as deserving of careful attention 
and
study as their counterparts in Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese
Buddhism. This first comprehensive collection of Korean Buddhist
writings should bring these authors the attention and sustained
engagement they deserve among Western scholars, students, and
practitioners of Buddhism.

Since the project was funded by a grant that only covered the
publication of a limited number of paper copies of the texts, the texts
are also being released in PDF format.

Participating translators: Juhn Ahn, Robert Buswell, Michael Finch,
Jung-geun Kim, Charles Muller, John Jorgensen, Richard McBride,
Jin Y. Park, Young-eui Park, Patrick Uhlmann, Sem Vermeersch, Matthew
Wegehaupt, and Roderick Whitfield.

For a the full table of contents of the thirteen volumes, and download
link, please see:

http://www.acmuller.net/kor-bud/collected_works.html

Best wishes from the Editorial Board:

Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
John Jorgensen
A. Charles Muller
Roderick Whitfield


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A. Charles Muller

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